Loïc “e338” Zimmermann has worked in the CG business for 10 years. In 1997, he graduated with a Fine Arts degree with First Class Honours and immediately started working as a class instructor. Two years later, he worked on CG projects in various fields such as architecture/urbanism and commercials.

In 2002, choosing to focus on character design and illustration, he opted exclusively for freelance jobs. For a couple of projects, including a virtual fashion show, he worked with everything from technical tasks to directing and editing, which gave him a global vision of the many steps you have to go through during a production phase.

Later, Loïc joined a team in Italy to work on a born dead feature film (“Anne Frank” for 263 films) and then he headed back to Paris where he was hired as an artistic director and rendering supervisor for Sparx Animation. There, he also monitored student progress on final projects at the Art School Les Gobelins (Burning Safari, Coq Hot).

Recently Loïc or “e338”, has spent even more time on personal projects (exhibitions, books) professional illustrations (Motionbuilder7, Maya8, etc) and publishing (a cover for Silent Hill, Science et Vie Jr, Imagine Fx, Fantasy Flight Games...)

In 2007, Loic recreated himself as a “digital double” in order to design and pre-visualize a tattoo that was then unwrapped, printed on a carbon paper, and then applied to his real skin with accuracy before the inking could start. These images ended up on Gizmodo, Wired and other high publications.

Loïc now works as a conceptual designer and character lead at Luma Pictures on projects that include Harry Potter, Wolverine, City of Ember, Underworld, and Percy Jackson.